Preface

Note on Transliteration

Remembering Absence

1. The Light of Certain Stars: From Memory to Historical Simultaneity

2. Full Fathom Five: On the Temporal Dimensions of Exodus

3. Crisis and Famine: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Oneiric Revelation

4. The Love of Flowers: Catastrophe in the Aegean

5. Emptiness of Anavatos: Exile, Commemoration, and Melancholia

6. Ruins of Kidianta: Dwelling, Oblivion, and Resurrection

7. The Abbess of Nea Moni: The Contemporaneity of Divine Vision.

8. Life in the Tomb: Rocket Warriors of Vrontados

9. The Darksome Line: Aegean Temporality

Reference List

Index

Nicolas Argenti is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields, and editor (with Katharina Schramm) of Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission.